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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:37 AM
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2. In northwestern Bergen County and southern Passaic County (NJ) there
is a group now known as the "Ramapo" Indians. They are comprised of approximately five families with Dutch surnames. They are of a mixed ethnic combination: the Lenelenape (sp?) or Algonquin tribes, Dutch settlers, and runaway or freed slaves. They have been known in the past as "Jackson Whites" which is now a derogatory, racist term.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/J/JacksoW1.asp

They lived removed from other communities as a community unto themselves and were more or less left alone until around World War II when the area started to seriously be developed.

The group has been requesting federal recognition as an "Indian trible" in order to receive federal aid, and perhaps, to open a small casino on their land.
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